Speaking of booming fintech, please welcome to the compensation list David Green, EVP, GC and corporate secretary at Atlanta-headquartered Global Payments Inc., which processes credit card transactions for merchants and banks. Green’s debut comes courtesy of his $1.429 million total cash payout last year. That’s a $500,000 salary and $929,000 in nonequity incentives. Green also received nearly $1.4 million in stock awards and options.

As of February 2017, Green oversees a legal department that includes 14 lawyers, most of whom are based in Atlanta, and about two dozen nonattorneys working in the regulatory compliance, privacy and enterprise risk management areas.